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CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 30.1914.

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CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

Application filed July 30, 1914. Serial No. 854,127.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Vrccron Nivois, a citizenof France, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Containers, of whichthe following is a specification. I

This invention relates to containers, and while the invention is capableof use in many connections, it is described and illus-' tratedhereinafter as applied to a cigarette container or case.

The invention is applicable to any container which is opened from timeto time in is such that when the hinged members are swung apart to openthe container, the holder for the cigarettes moves out into the anglebetween the hinged members so that the cigarettes are displayed in aposition where they can be readily removed.

The invention consists in the general combination of parts andsimplicity of details hereinafter described, all of which con-j tributeto produce an efficient container.

A preferred embodiment of my invention will be particularly described inthe following specification while the broad scope of my invention willbe pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective illustrating a containerembodying my invention. rig. 2 is a plan showing the hinged portion ofthe container in open position, certain parts being broken away. Fig. 3is a longitudinal section through. the container taken at the hingeconnection and illustrating details of form which the invention maytake. Fig. 4 is a cross section through the hinge connection on the line4-4 of Fig. 3, illustrating the parts of the container in their openrelation. Fig. 5 is a view'somewhat similar to Fig. 2 showing the hingeportion of the container with the container in its opened position; thisview shows a special form of holder for the cigarettes. Fig. 6 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 3 but showing another form the invention may take as tothe means of attaching the holder to the hinge connection. Fig. 7 is across section about on the line 77 of Fig. 6.

Referring more particularly to the parts, the container illustrated maybe adapted for carrying any article such as cigarettes or cigars, andthis container preferably comprises two members 10 and 11 which, in thepresent instance, constitute respectively the body and lid of a simpleflat box having a hinge connection as at the edge 12. In forming a hingeconnection, I prefer to employ a pintle 13, the body 14 of which formsthe axis of rotation of the container members upon each other. Thispintle 13 has free lateral extensions 15 which are preferably formed atthe ends of the pintle by bending the pintle laterally, and theseextensions 15 preferably extend substantially at right angles to thebody 14 of the pintle. The ends of the extensions 15 are preferably bentto form shanks 16 substantially parallel with the body 14 of the pintle.The pintle may be attached to the members 10 and 11 in any suitablemanner, but I prefer to attach the pintle in place by forming a shallowoff-set channel 17 in the flange 18 of the member 10 this channel ispreferably formed at about mid-height of the flange 18. The extensions15 are sufliciently long to project beyond the upper edge of the flange18 when the pintle is in the position shown in Fig. 4. The flange 18beyond the channel 17 is preferably off-set in an outward direction toform grooves 19 conforming to the shape of the extensions 13 and alsoreceiving the ends of the body 14 of the pintle. The channel 17 ispreferably formed by pressing the metal toward the inner side of theflange and the extensions 15 lie on the inner side L of the flange.

The member 11 may, if desired, have a flange 20 of less depth than theflange 18 so that this member constitutes a lid. I prefer to attach thismember 11 to the body 14 of the pintle by forming an integral sleeve 21on the flange which grips the body of the pintle frictionally. Theshanks 16 facilitate the attachment to the pintle of a holder 22. Thisholder 22 may be of any desired form. In Fig. 1, I have illustrated itas a simple open box which may be formed of cardboard or thin metal andadapted to contain a row of cigarettes 23 the inner ends of which abutagainst the bottom wall 2st of the holder. This holder 22 is preferablynarrow so that the upper ends of the cigarettes project in some suchmanner as that illustrated in Fig. 1. If desired, however, the holderfor the cigarettes may have the form illustrated in Figs. 5 to 7. Inthis case, the holder 25 is formed of light sheet metal and consists oftwo oppositely disposed plates having waves or corrugations 26 formingsockets 27 to receive the cigarettes. A holder of this form is most con-Veniently produced from a sheet of metal bent or folded upon itself soas to bring its side edges 28 into parallelism. When the holder is madeof metal in this way, I prefor to attach the holder to the pintle in'the manner illustrated in Fig. 6, wherein 29 illustrates the pintle. Thelateral extensions of the pintle in this case are formed with shanks 30which project in the same direction and the bottom 31 of the holder ispreferably punched and off-set so as to form sockets to receive theshanks 30. These sockets are preferably formed by producing anupward'off-set 32 and punching downwardly from this off-set an integraltongue 33 so that the shanks 30 are adapted to be shoved into the spacebetween the off-set metal 32 and the tongues 33. At the edge of theoff-set portions shoulders 34 are formed and these shoulders perform thefunction of preventing the withdrawal of the shanks after they have beenshoved into position by a longitudinal movement of the shanks in thedirection in which they point.

In the mode of operation of the invention, the pintle 13 is freelymovable and the arrangement is such that when the members 10 and 11 areswung apart, the sleeve 21 will rotate the pintle and swing the holderup from the container and into the angle between the members, and aslong as the member 11 is swinging open, the upward swinging movement ofthe pintle will continue until its swinging movement is limited by theextensions 15 striking the flange 18. This would prevent any furthermovement of the holder 22 and if desired, the members 10 and 11 can thenbe moved until they come into substantially the same plane. The opencontainer can then be laid upon a support such as a table with theholder 22 projecting substantially Vertically. Evidently the cigarettesmay be veryconvenlently reached and removed from the contamer.

Obviously it is not necessary to open the container to its full openposition as the cigarettes may be readily removed in a par tially openposition of the container. Evidently also, either the member 10 or 11may be considered as a lid member or body member. Furthermore, althoughI have illustrated the holders 22 and 25 as adapted to hold a single rowof cigarettes, evidently these holders may be constructed to carry twoor more rows of cigarettes or cigars, or other articles if desired.

It is understood that the embodiment of the invention set forth above isonly one of the many embodiments or forms the invention may take and Ido not wish to be limited in the practice of my invention or 111. theconstruction of my claims to the particular embodiment set forth.

What I claim is;

1. A Container of the class described comprising two hinged membershaving a pintle at their hinge connection, said pintle having freeprojecting parts and a holder attached directly to the said projectingparts of the pintle, said holder being adapted to be 1nclosed by saidmembers when they are brought together.

2. A container of the class described comprising two hinged membershaving a pintle at their hinge connection, said pintle having freeprojecting parts and a. holder attached directly to the said projectingparts of the pintle, said holder being adapted to be mclosed by saidmembers when they are brought together, said pintle bemg freely movablewith respect to one of said members in one direction and means forlimiting the movement of the pintle with respect to that member in theother direction.

3. A container of the class described comprising a body, a lid to .closesaid body, a hinge pintle connecting said lid and said body to enablesaid lid to swing open, said hinge pintle having extensions at the endsthereof and a holder attached to said extensions and arranged to foldinto the 11 terior of the container when the same 1s closed,

4. A container of the class described comprising a body, a lid to closesaid body, a hinge pintle connecting said lid and said body to enablesaid lid to swing open, said hinge pintle having extensions at the endsthereof and a holder attached to said extensions and arranged to foldinto the interior of the container when the same 1s closed, said lidhaving frictional engagement with said pintle to rotate the pintle whenthe container is opened and thereby move said holder out into the anglebetween said body and said lid.

5. A container of the class described comprising two hinged membershaving a pintle connecting the same, a holder attached to said pintleand lying in the space between said members when the same are broughttogether, one of said members having a connection with said pintleadapted to rotate said pintle when said members are swung apart, theother of said members having means for limiting the movement of saidpintle when the holder is projecting into the angle formed between saidmembers.

6. A container of the class described comprising two hinged members, apintle for hingedly connecting the same, a holder attached to saidpintle, one of said members having a flange with a sleeve havingfrictional engagement with said pintle for rotating the same when saidmembers are swung apart, the other of said members having a flange inthe path of movement of the pintle when it is rotated by said sleeve tolimit the movement of said pintle and maintain the holder projectinginto the angle between said members.

7. A container of the class described comprising two hinged members, apintle for hingedly connecting the same, said pintle being bent to formlaterally projecting extensions, a holder attached to said lateralextensions and adapted to lie between said members when they are broughttogether, and means for rotating said pintle when said members are movedinto substantially the same plane to maintain said holder projecting ina plane substantially at right angles to the plane of said members.

8. A container of the class described comprising a body having a flange,a pintle rotatably mounted in said flange and having laterally disposedextensions lying on the inner side of said flange which may projectbeyond the edge of said flange, a holder attached to said extensions andadapted to fold down into said body, and a lid having a sleevefrictionally engaging said pintle and adapted to rotate the same whenthe lid is opened to swing said holder away from said body and move thesame into position Evith said extensions against said first named ange.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

VICTOR NIVOI S.

Witnesses SADIE ANDREWS, MILDRED GLADSTONE.

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